Body Height of Children with Bronchial Asthma of Various Severities

Table 1

Clinical profile of subjects.

Characteristic	Number of patients	Gender (boys/girls)
Healthy	875	423/452
5-6 years	206	102/104
7–9 years	193	102/91
10–12 years	198	89/108
13-14 years	125	62/63
15–17 years	154	68/86
BA	1042	768/274
5-6 years	189	111/78
7–9 years	208	136/71
10–12 years	241	186/55
13-14 years	164	137/27
15–17 years	241	198/43
Degree of bronchial asthma severity:
Intermittent	144	115/29
Mild persistent	520	385/135
Moderate persistent	308	217/91
Severe persistent	70	51/19